Schrader Environmental Education Center's Snapshots

FLOWERING DOGWOOD
The Dogwood tree also produces both flowers and berries, but neither is exactly what it seems to be. The berries are edible only to birds and small creatures, and are not actually be...

TREE PROTECTORS
Ever wonder why the sapling tree protectors are blue? Do you know the colors of a rainbow? The order of the colors of a rainbow is the same as in the color spectrum. That is because r...

SNAG
Dead trees, still standing upright in the forest, are called snags and are the perfect habitat for birds and bugs. Some birds, like black capped chickadees locate their nests in holes, or cavitie...

BIRD FEEDER
Ever wonder why some birds fly away for the winter and others are here year round? The birds that fly away for the winter, Robins etc, do not have the beaks to change their diet from bugs...